| Soulwax | |
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Performing as 2manydjs in 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | 2manydjs Flying Dewaele Brothers Samantha Fu Kawazaki |
| Origin | Ghent, Belgium |
| Genres | Alternative rock Dance Dance-punk Grunge (early) |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | PIAS Modular Recordings |
| Associated acts | LCD Soundsystem Justice Klaxons Tiga Das Pop Chris Goss Peaches |
| Website | soulwax.com |
| Members | |
| Stephen Dewaele David Dewaele Stefaan Van Leuven Steve Slingeneyer |
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| Past members | |
| Piet Dierickx Kurt Huyghe Inge Flipts Helmut Van Den Meersschaut Stephane Misseghers Dave Martijn |
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Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, are an alternative rock/electronic band from Ghent, Belgium. Next to the Dewaele brothers, Soulwax consists of bassist Stefaan Van Leuven and drummer Steve Slingeneyer. They were first noticed after the release of their album Much Against Everyone's Advice. But after that the Dewaeles started focusing on their other projects such as The Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2manydjs, but also hosting a show on Belgian television, 'Alter8'. Since the release of their Nite Versions album they have been touring around the globe, almost non-stop.
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The 2004 album Any Minute Now spawned three singles in "E Talking", "NY Excuse" and the title track. "E Talking"'s music video was controversial and restricted to post-watershed broadcast on music television channels. Set in London's Fabric nightclub, everyone in the video is depicted as being on a different drug, from A-Z (including popular drug nicknames). [1]
The duo has also produced a number of official and unofficial remixes, including "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" and "Get Innocuous!" by LCD Soundsystem, "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and DARE by Gorillaz. David and Stephen are friends of artists Tiga, LCD Soundsystem and Whomadewho. The album Nite Versions (2005) is a collection of remixes of tracks from the album Any Minute Now.
In January 2006, Soulwax released their second remix album. The album, titled This Is Radio Soulwax, was covermount into the February 2006 issue of Mixmag. Their third remix album, Part of NYE Never Dies was also covermount into Mixmag, this time in late 2008.
In summer 2006, Soulwax completed a 'Nite Version remix' of Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control", as well as their 'Ravelight Dub' and 'Ravelight Vocal Mix' of Robbie Williams' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director Saam Farahmand, and resulted in a Radio Soulwax documentary, "Part of the Weekend Never Dies".
In August 2006, Soulwax were working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine HUMO that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed a band with Shane Doran and his brother in-law Fergadelic called Die Verboten.
In 2007, Soulwax produced remixes of "Gravity's Rainbow" by Klaxons, and "Phantom Pt. II" by Justice. Remixes for "Ice Cream" by New Young Pony Club and "Pogo" by Digitalism had been rumoured, but were never completed.
Soulwax, under the guise of 2manydjs, headlined their own 'Radio Soulwax' tent at the Rock Ness Festival held on 9 June 2007. The following day at Rock Ness Festival, they played a Soulwax Nite Versions show in the 'Clash Arena'. Later that month, they took part in the Wild in the Country event at Knebworth Park on 30 June 2007. In December 2007, they held Radio Soulwax-mas, a massive X-mas party in Flanders Expo with guests such as Tiga, Erol Alkan, Boys Noize, Justice, Riton, Mixhell, Daniele Baldelli, Hong Kong Dong, Das Pop, Goose, Milk Inc, etc.
Soulwax have also produced the debut album by fellow Belgians Das Pop. The album will be released in the UK in 2009.[1]
In 2009 December, Soulwax produced a song, for Crookers with Mixhell. The song called "We Love Animals". In addition, Soulwax produced the song "Talk to Me" by Peaches.[2]
The only official compilation As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, was released in 2002 and is composed of 45 tracks the Dewaele brothers were able to clear the rights from. They originally requested rights for 187 tracks and got clearances for 114 of them. 62 were refused and 11 remained untraceable.[3]
All the unofficial releases (As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 1 and 3 through 11) are in fact a compilation of the Radio Soulwax shows[4] 2manydjs did for various radios including Studio Brussel (Belgium) , Radio 1 (UK), KISS 100 (UK) and Eins live (Germany).[5]
As part of the Vivid Live Festival in Sydney, David and Stephen Dewaele behind 2manydjs and electro-rock outfit Soulwax will present a one-off series of radio shows on 'Triple J' Australian national radio station. The series will be broadcast nationally 6pm nightly from 31 May 2011 to 3 June 2011.
The 2001 track "Theme from Discothèque" is by David and Stephen Dewaele from Soulwax, under the name Samantha Fu. They produced this track for a Ghent-based dancegroup called Kung Fu.
Recently Soulwax admitted they'd been putting out material under pseudonyms and secret aliases and music magazine NME decided to attempt to establish what those aliases were. After doing a quick google for anonymous DJs they were put on the hunt to discover the identity of mysterious producer Fake Blood. DJ Erol Alkan, seemingly as a joke, said to his press officer "Tell NME, Fake Blood is Soulwax" which they then repeated and printed it as practically gospel despite that being highly illogical.
On February 2, 2009, Soulwax made a guest appearance on BBC Radio 1, playing 420 song introductions in a period of 60 minutes.[6]
In 2004 Soulwax compiled the soundtrack for the Belgian movie Steve + Sky. Soulwax contributed three instrumental tracks on this compilation under the name "Kawazaki".
Soulwax's remix of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the credit song of, and featured in the movie 21.
Director Saam Farahmand has filmed Soulwax on their international dates (2005–2007), capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia. This resulted in 2 films; a live music film and a documentary which includes 2manydjs, Soulwax Nite Versions and features James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, The Naked Guy, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more in behind the scenes footage, interviews, etc. As of April 2008, Soulwax's clubbing film/documentary Part of the Weekend Never Dies is finished. They performed a sold out gig at the London Royal Festival Hall, during which they did a première of the film. It came out on DVD September 2008.
Soulwax's current project is a website called Radio Soulwax, in which a continuous mix will be playing all day. It will feature 24 hour-long mixes with visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live sets, and will include music from many different decades. After they complete this project, they have stated in interviews that they will work on their next studio album.
Soulwax - Machine was conceived and directed by Saam Farahmand, who was inspired to create an interpretation of the ethos behind the project. The result is a film that encapsulates the audio visual obsession of Radio Soulwax. The film was previsualised, edited and post produced by The House of Curves in London.
| Year | Song | UK Singles Chart[7] | Album |
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| 1995 | "2nd Handsome Blues" (10" Vinyl EP) | - | - |
| 2000 | "Conversation Intercom" | #65 | Much Against Everyone's Advice |
| 2000 | "Much Against Everyone's Advice" | #56 | Much Against Everyone's Advice |
| 2000 | "Too Many DJ's" | #40 | Much Against Everyone's Advice |
| 2001 | "Conversation Intercom" (re-mix) | #50 | Much Against Everyone's Advice |
| 2004 | "Any Minute Now" | #34 | Any Minute Now |
| 2005 | "E Talking" | #27 | Any Minute Now |
| 2005 | "NY Excuse" | #35 | Any Minute Now |
These unofficial compilations are bootleg recordings of radio shows that 2manydjs did for Studio Brussel.
A bootleg recording of their Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 in 2005 was released under the title 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong.
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